Knitted fabric.



No'. 709,840." v Patented Sept. 23, I902. L. N. n. WILLIAMS.

KNITTED FABRIC.

(Application filed Feb. 28, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATE T OFFICE.

LOUIS N. WILLIAMS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO ROBERT W. SCOTT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

KNITTED FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,840, dated September 23, 1902.

Application filed February 28, 1902. Serial No. 96,091. 7 (N specimens.)

To all whom it may concern: that the yarn of one Web is different in color Be it known that I, LOUIS N. D. WILLIAMS, from that of the other a backing is provided a citizen of the United States, residing in for said lace or open work pattern of the face Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented web which brings said pattern strongly into 55 certain Improvements in Knitted Fabrics, of relief and has the further effect of protecting, which the following is a specification. the wearer from cold and from the passage of My invention comprises certain improvedust and dirt through the open meshes of the ments in or modifications of that forming the face web, thus overcoming serious objections subject of application for patent filed by Dato ordinary plain fabrics having open-work 6o [0 vid 0. Bellis on the th day of February, 1902, patterns and providing for the production of Serial No. 94,194, said fabric comprising two stockings or other articles of apparel with webs practically independent of each other, such open-work patterns and which are availbut united at intervals by causing the yarn able for use in cold weather as well as in warm which constitutes one of the webs to engage weather. 65 [5 with the other web, the two Webs lying closely For the sake of appearance the yarn of together, so as to provide adouble web joined which the face web 1 is composed may be of at the desired points. silk, mercerized cotton, or the like, and for One object of my invention is to permit of the sake of warmth the back web 2 may be the production of ornamental efiects in the composed of woolen or worsted yarn; but as 7.0 fabric without the objections attending the the latter would have a greater tendency to same when produced ina plain knitted fabshrink than'the yarn of the face web the ric, a further object being to prevent distorstitches of said back Web are drawn somewhat tion of the double web when the yarn with longer than the plain stitches of the face which one of the webs is produced is of a charweb, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, whereby a 75 acter susceptible of greater shrinkage than considerable margin of shrinkage is provided that of the other web, and'a still further obfor. Hence said stitches of the back web will ject being to provide for the production of a never become shorter or tighter than those fleece back upon the fabric without impairof the face web, and no puckeringor distoring the appearance of the face by the showtion of the latter will result from the greater 80 o ing of the fleecing-yarn thereon. These obshrinkage of the yarn constituting the back jects I attain in the manner hereinafter set web.

forth, reference being had to the accompany- When it is desired to form a fleece back ing drawings, in Whichupon the fabric by means of ayarn independ- Figure 1 is an exaggerated View of a piece ent of the knitting-yarn, said extra fleecing- 85 of knitted fabric embodying my invention; yarn is engaged with wales of the back web and Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same on only and floats on the back of said back web the line a Ct, Fig. 1. over one or more wales intervening between The fabric consists of two plain webs, each those with which it is engaged, one course of preferably tubular and one overlying the such fleecing-yarn being at y.) Shownin Figs. 90 other, as shown at l and 2, these webs being 1 and 2.) Such fleecing-yarn may be introunited together at the desired points in the duced in every course of the back web or in manner described in the application of Bel every second, third, or other alternate course, lis, above referred to. as desired, and no part of it projects through In the present instance the web 1 is to be the face Web. Hence the appearance of the 5 g regarded as the face Web of the fabric and latter is not affected by the presence of the the web 2 as the back web, and it will be obfleecing-yarn. served on reference to Fig. 1 that said face The fabric may be produced uponamaohine web is knitted with tuck-stitches in certain having two needle-carriers, with one or more of the wales m, so as to produce an open or yarn-guides for each needle-carrier, one yarn- [CO lace work effect, through which are visible the guide or set of yarn-guides feeding yarn to stitches of the back web, whereby supposing the needles of one needle-carrier to produce one web and the other yarn-guide or set of yarn-guides feeding yarn to the needles of the other needle-carrier for the production of the other web, the needles of one needle-carrier engaging the yarn which is normally fed to the needles of the other needle-carrier at such points as it is desired to tie the two webs together.

It will be evident that my invention can be embodied in a fabric of the type shown in the application filed by Robert W. Scott on the 25th day of February,1902, Serial No. 95,505- that is to say, one in which the two webs are united by yarnsindependent of those of which the webs themselves are composed.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A knitted fabric comprising two webs one overlying the other and the webs being united at intervals, the face web having openwork portions and the back web having closely-knitted portions behind said openwork port-ions, substantially as specified.

2. A knitted fabric comprising two webs one overlying the other, said webs being united at intervals and one web being composed of yarn diifering from that of the other web, the face web having open-work portions and the back web having closely-knitted portions behind said open-work portions of the face web, substantially as specified.

3. A knitted fabric comprising two webs one overlying the other, said webs being united at intervals, one web being composed of yarn having a greater degree of shrinkage than the yarn composing the other web, and the web composed ofsaid first-mentioned yarn having longer stitches than those of the other web, substantially as specified.

4. A knitted fabric comprising two webs one overlying the other, said webs being united at invervals and one face of the fabric having projecting loops of fleecing-yarn which yarn is confined to the fabric by engagement with wales of that face web only, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS N. D. WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

WALTER CHISM, J os. H. KLEIN. 

